Making a good layout

I started HTML 2 days ago and i just was wondering how i can make this layout better

<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" border="0"
bgcolor="black" id="shell" height="250" width="400">
<tr height="50"><td colspan="2" bgcolor="white">
<table title="Banner" id="banner" border="0">
<tr><td>Place a banner here</td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
<tr height="200"><td bgcolor="white">
<table id="navigation" title="Navigation" border="0">
<tr><td>Links!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links!</td></tr>
</table>
</td><td bgcolor="white">
<table title="Content" id="content" border="0">
<tr><td>Content goes here</td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>

Thanks Brawr

Don't do it in tables. Use DIV's and CSS.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/DEFAULT.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asp

what are divs and css?
And
can you give me the direct link

You might also fine this link useful for CSS' layouts:
http://bonrouge.com/3c-hf-fluid-lc.php

Hope that helps a bit.

If you want to make a good looking website you must first plan and design before coding. Collect research and ideas of things you like then recreate them with your own spin in some graphics software. I suggest Adobe Photoshop however GIMP is supposed to be quite good and it's free unlike Photoshop. Once you have designed your layout, slice it into lots of smaller images and code it in XHTML and CSS.

If you don't understand any of what I just said google the key words I made bold. If you still can't grasp it feel free to ask more questions here!

Ok but i am still not sure how to lay it out and all.